Hospital at Home Lead Pharmacist | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the team in developing the Hospital at Home and Medicines case management services across Manchester

We are looking for an experienced pharmacist to promote innovative ways of working and positively contribute to local residents remaining in their own homes. You should be confident working as part of a multidisciplinary team with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills as well as advanced clinical knowledge.

The successful candidate will become an integral part of the well supported and award-winning CMOS team in providing an advanced patient facing pharmaceutical service in working closely with pharmacy teams and other services across MFT

You must be registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist, hold a post graduate clinical diploma or equivalent and have substantial hospital or primary care experience. Ideally, you will be an Independent Prescriber or at least working towards achieving this.

· Lead and oversee the medicines optimisation support to Hospital at Home (H@H)

· Supervise pharmacists and technicians working in H@H

· Work in the H@H multidisciplinary team to:

o Provide better co-ordinated care to patients

o Reduce hospital re-admissions

o Improve medicines safety

o Improve medicines compliance

· Deputise for lead pharmacists in the Community Medicines Optimisation Service where appropriate.

· Support the development of good practice and safe medicines management across LCO and its partner organisations

· Provide highly specialised clinical pharmacy knowledge and medicines advice to LCO staff and partner organisations, including cost-effective prescribing and clinical guidelines for disease treatment

· Work as an Independent Prescriber in H@H

· Develop and implement medicines management policies and procedures to support safe and cost- effective use of medicines in line with local priorities, national directives, medicines legislation and professional ethics

· Lead on new service developments and medicines optimisation projects

· Support the delivery of a medicines optimisation service to other Community Medicines Optimisation Service (CMOS) work-streams when required

· Support the delivery of our medicines training to LCO staff

· Participate in any new arrangements that may involve flexible working, e.g. extended hours or 7-day service.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’re also creating a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which goes live in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Dec 2024

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